Auramodz, 2024
publication-as-game
edition of 100, risograph, 
3.5”x6” with legal size centrefold 
inside 6”x9” envelope
published by Bathers Library
thanks to Irrelevant Press
released at SF Art Book Fair 2024

Auramodz is a 31-day artist’s game in which each day involves a provocative chaotic cosplay transformation. Players are able to partake in whatever capacity they have. The game can involve one or more players, and the objective is to regain appreciation for oneself via the radical perspective shift of taking on the life of a lettuce, Ariana Grande, or even Wi-Fi.

These artist games are produced with a mail-friendly envelope in mind so that anyone can receive this game if desired.

L.V.A.’s Web, 2024
borosilicate glass
approx. 14”x8”x5”

CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) can be seen as modern-day sigils—digital forms of protection from bad actors (both human and non-human) attempting to seek data. It is reminiscent of Charlotte the spider from Charlotte’s Web, who was able to inter-species communicate via her ability to write English words in her webs. Luis von Ahn (founder of Duolingo) is therefore our modern-day Charlotte. And the transparency of these sigils—the invisible power of CAPTCHAs—are often overlooked.

Common Matrix, 2018
dos-à-dos hardcover bound book-object, foil stamped
edition of 100, 4”x4”x2”

found paper, found objects
completed as part of the San Francisco Center for the Book Small Plates residency
sold out

Common Matrix is an archive of objects set in a speculative future, where a post-human civilization attempts to make sense of the detritus that has been left behind by the people of past. 14 objects are placed in a series of nested folding boxes, with 7 on each side of the book. On the front and back covers is a post-human script to denote the archive. 

Acquaintance Cards (2022, 2024)
Set of 12 cards, 3.5”x2”, 2 issues, in editions of 50. Published by 40 Trillion DPI (in collaboration with Justin Carder)

A modern post-pandemic take on the Victorian tradition of acquaintance cards, intended to incite both platonic and romantic connections.

Odd Pedagogies (a 40 Trillion DPI event), 2023
live lecture performance + broadsheet publication, in collaboration with Justin Carder

I co-host 40 Trillion DPI, an audio podcast about design and culture-at-large. In April 2023 we produced a live version of the show where 4 artists and writers contributed lectures about alternative pedagogies, and we published a broadsheet poster, GO DEEP: WHAT YOUR FAVORITE DESIGN TOOL SAYS ABOUT YOU as part of the event. Thank you to Eternal Now in Oakland for hosting our event.  

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40 Trillion Visual Substack

memory palace // vibe check, 2021
2-day installation & workshop
UKY Department of Interiors, Lexington, KY
balloons, helium, mylar, sheet plastic collected objects
14’x9’x12’

During early 2021, I worked with the UKY Department of Interiors to build a structure as a cathartic method of celebrating finally being able to break out of extreme isolation. The final installation of memory palace // vibe check serves as a collective altar for people to honour their memories and emotions during the harried times of 2020. 

Armatures in Felt, ongoing
Since 2024 I have been investigating a formal language loosely driven by the notion of the sigil. Sigils are pictorial symbols historically associated with magic powers that could be wielded/intentioned. So many of these historic sigils appear to have a cold, rigid nature to them. I’m more interested in envisioning sigils that are softer and web-like.

Decompression Paintings, 2016—ongoing

These small-scale painting-sculptures generally emerge as a form of meditative sketching. Sometimes they embody an anecdote, whereas other times the final forms become more about a conversation between old and new found objects. Some of the embedded objects are materials I’ve held onto since I was a child, which are treated as rare and precious since I’ve moved both internationally and domestically many, many times over. Holding onto anything becomes an intimately resistant act despite having a lack of a familial home.

Kendal Kulley Thesis Book, 2021

book-object, printed on tyvek, serged and bound with rubber, waterproof bag, edition of 8. produced in collaboration with Kendal Kulley 
& Sam Panter

During early 2021 we worked over Zoom to collectively design and conceptualize Kendal’s thesis book for Cranbrook, which comsisted of a neverending stream of thoughts connecting Kendal’s two-year body of work.  

The Peter P. Memorial U-Pick Quick Pick Pickle Competition, 2022

A Magic & Pasta event-workshop, in collaboration with Alex Meiser and Hannah Palasinki. Guest Judge: Jenny Eagleton. 16mm film by Nate Zack.  

Magic & Pasta held a quick-pickle workshop inside a vacant San Francisco saloon. the intention was to bring a little Midwest county fair flair to San Francisco by melding Alex and Hannah’s Michigan expertise with Bay Area produce. by consulting with Jenny Eagleton, local food and wine expert, we collected a vast range of edible textures and flavors for participants to create quick pickles with, from rose water, pink pina, sea asparagus, all the way to habanero, elderflower syrup and Gatorade. the workshop concluded with a competitive judging of pickles by Jenny.

see other participatory projects in the Magic & Pasta Project archive